Old tech video

C/U of a small child - probably 3 or 4 years old. The child holds onto a wheel and smiles at the camera. M/S of the child sitting on a very strange contraption which is a special motorised vehicle for children. It looks like a tiny motorbike with a very large wheel around it. Bizarre. M/S of the child driving along with a man running along beside her. It goes pretty fast and looks quite dangerous. The kid drives through some horse manure left on the road! The adult manages to avoid it. This is cute stuff! The kid keeps his cool throughout! Was item in Eve's Film Review issue 324. Note: Flash frame intertitles. FILM ID:870.04 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

This invention utilized a car's spare tire as a 5th wheel helping in parking. It may look funny and eventually failed, but was very effective. October 19, 1952, an inventor from Piedmont, CA noticed that cars were getting larger, while parking spots continued to shrink. He invented the "Park-Car," which was a car that utilized the spare tire in order to make more abrupt turns and aid in parallel parking. The tire drops down from the trunk of the car, lifting the back two tires off the ground, and acts as a swivel rotating or spinning the back of the car out of any tight spot. For more History's Playlist visit and subscribe! http://www.youtube.com/user/HistorysPlaylist?feature=mhee Follow us on Twitter to stay up to date with our newest videos: https://twitter.com/#!/HistoryPlaylist

The Hover Scooter, from British Pathe in 1960. A combination of a hovercraft and a scooter. OUR BEST CLIPS: Check out this playlist - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF58DA24745914ADC Watch the original Hover Scooter video in full length here: http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hover-scooter/ (look out for other good hover scooter footage there too) Fan of archive footage like this? Join the livey discussions and share links on our official British Pathe Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/britishpathe Chat to us on Twitter too @britishpathe http://www.twitter.com/britishpathe And remember to subscribe to our channel! - http://www.youtube.com/britishpathe Not a fan of waiting around? Well get stuck in - all 90,000 of our original reels can be searched and watched for free already on http://www.britishpathe.com A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

Flying Platform. US Navy demonstrates its Flying Platform in 1955, a "flying skateboard" or "hover board" vehicle that uses a direct lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans controlled by the pilot shifting his body weight around to tilt the platform. Although it looked like it could have been a massive development [and a great way for us to beat the traffic to work] sadly development ceased because the U.S. Army judged them to be impractical as combat vehicles as they were small, limited in speed and only barely flew out of the ground cushion effect. A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/ British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/